The Rory Gilmore Book Club discussion

"Clare," Helen grumbles, "I'm gonna go downstairs and tell your boyfriend every single hideous thing you've ever done in your life if you don't open this door immed-" I swing the door open and Helen almost falls into the room.



next: page 92, sentence 29

*BTW if the sentence number is too high then keep counting on other pages*

It made me think about some other book-to-movie adaptations I've seen over the years and the awards I would have given out, if-if only!-I ruled the world.

(So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson)

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"You are half an hour late."

(Malgudi Days, R.K. Narayan.)

Next: Page 117, Sentence 15

"'Your best girl--the one with the Pekinese dogs.'"

(Public Enemies America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34, Bryan Burrough)

Next: Page 53, Sentence 17

"He was looking at the still-burning pyre of the pulp-truck, and at the wreckage of what was clearly a plane."

(Under the Dome A Novel, Stephen King.)

Next: Page 73, Sentence 10.

"A breath of love had passed over the stitches on the canvas; each prick of the needle had fixed there a hope or a memory, and all those interwoven threads of silk were but the continuity of the same silent passion."

(Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert)

Next: Page 118, Sentence 5

When they gave me to you, in the hospital when you were born, and I knew you were a girl and I was never so happy in all my life before or since, I vowed I would never let my daughter be hurt as I have been hurt I will give my life for her I swear to You God.

(Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates)

Next: Page 22, Sentence 11

He jerked his chin casually in the direction of the hotel manager.

(Death of Achilles by Boris Akunin)

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They emerge with popular clarity when the two sides used a common body of material to reach opposite conclusions.
(The History of Germany 1780-1918: The Long Nineteenth Century by David Blackbourn)

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Peculiar? You haven't heard the half of it, according to the other whores.
(The Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber)

Next: page 100 sentence 4

Jill wrote: "Peculiar? You haven't heard the half of it, according to the other whores.
(The Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber)

Next: page 100 sentence 4"

Yeah, I love The Crimson Petal and the White!! Sorry, I just had to share that. :)

You're quote made me feel nostalgic. I really have to reread that book soon.

"They headed off expecting the most glorious reception ever."

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

Next: page 93, sentence 11

In Indonesian : Kami tidak tahu, jika di dasar menara ada taman kecil berupa gerumbulan tanaman perdu dan rumput. (Negeri 5 Menara by A. Fuadi)

Translate in English : We never knew before, there is a small shrubs garden and grass at the bottom of the tower.

Next : Page 33, Sentence 3

It would be better for him that a millstone were tied about his neck and that he were cast into the depth of the sea rather than that he should scandalise one of these, my least little ones.

(A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man-James Joyce)

Next: Page 88, Sentence 4

"I don't think you do."

(The Princess Bride, William Goldman.)


Next: Page 182, Sentence 12.

Wouldn't that have been merry, sharing it with so many?

(Life of Pi, Yann Martel)

Next: page 204, sentence 7

"Mrs. Craven was a very lovely young lady, he had gone rather hesitatingly.

(The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett)

Next: Page 48, sentence 8

How can you actually tell if you've been poisoned?
The seducer, Jan kjaerstad

next page 197
sentence 3

Will I be found on the station-master's doorstep tomorrow morning, a tear frozen in my eye and my tiny, rigid hands clasping a bunch of withered posies?

(Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin.)

Next: Page 160, Sentence 11.

Some of the others underestimate her understanding.

(The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory

Next: page 112, sentence 4

Even with all the critical ingenuity they had at their disposal, there wasn't much they could make of the rest of the lyrics, which were of the "I love the way she talks/walks/wiggles" variety.

(Page "omigod i shut the book immediately after typing")

Juliet, Naked A Novel

Ian, what's next??

Oh crap I screwed it up X_x

Uh, Page 52 sentence 3!

=D

"Let Amalia Kazimirovna show some courage."

(The Winter Queen, Boris Akunin)

Next: Page 14, Sentence 7.

"Breng de soep geleidelijk weer aan de kook en roer de room erdoor" (translated from Dutch: Gradually bring the soup back to a boil and stirr with the cream)

Recipe for a leek-potatoe soup

From: Pittige gerechten, van vurig voedsel tot gerechten voor bij de open haard
(translation: Spicy food, from fiery food to dishes by the fireplace)

Just me being in a festive mood took out a cookbook instead of a novel :)

Next: page 105, sentence 3

"We've had everything cleaned anyway."

the clothes they stood up in and the lady in the van.

next page 23 sentence 6

"And the girl pulled whatever she could find deep inside her soul, from all the pain, and the hurt , and the fear"

Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere. Not a bad sentence if I do say so myself =)

next: Page 100 sentence 7

"You've torn our family apart. It's not meant to be this way."

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

Next: Page 234 sentence 56

My page 234 doesn't have 56 sentences, so I will do the last sentence on the page.

"You'll have Mrs.Norris back in no time."
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Next: page 13, sentence 7

The image was surprisingly lively, given the primitive medium.

(The Historian-Elizabeth Kostova)

Next: Page 93, Sentence 14

"Can we just go home, Sven?" (Up Close and Personal - Fern Michaels)

Next: Page 152, Sentence 13

How does this game work?

You get the instruction like in a post No. 83, you take first book on the bookself you lay your eyes on, find the page and the sentence, write the sentence and the name of the book down and set next book and sentence to find..

39. Erlich un Alter. A gedenkbuch, s. 200 - 229

(Redbook. Stalin and Jews by Arno Lustiger)

Next: page 200, sentence 25

We ran away ,then sitt, for we did not want the dead man to mistake us for his murderers.
(Lion in the Valley. Elizabeth Peters.)

Next book. Page 150 Sentence 7.

Fun!

She had been sent to tell me his story, to give me the information I needed to solve all the complications in his life. - The Flamenco Academy by Sarah Bird

Next Book: Page 235 Sentence 17

"Her prayers for her son were heard by all of Heaven, and God sent us to show Roy that he could find love."

Those Christmas Angels

next: page 12 sentence 3

But I did not care to enlighten K--, whose comments I knew would be provokingly envious or wounding to my pride in some way.

(The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service by Erskine Childers.)

Next: Page 87, Sentence 7.

Then I listened to the sounds in the garden and I could hear a bird singing and I could hear traffic noise which was like the surf on a beach and I could hear someone playing music somewhere and children shouting.

(The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time | Mark Haddon)

Next: Page 153, sentence 3

Finally, she dived into a hollow and before I came in sight of her again, she was two miles nearer Wuthering Heights than her own home; and I beheld a couple of persons arrest her, one of whom I felt convinced was Mr. Heathcliff himself.

Wuthering Heights


Next: page 67, sentence 8

There wasn't much moon.

Peace Like a River

next: page 135 sentene 3

"Jesus," he said, "drive your car!" and then missed the light at Geneva.

(Songs for the Missing: A Novel, Stewart O'Nan.)

Next: Page 55, Sentence 10.

South Carolina's eight electors voted for Pickney but then cast all of their second-ballot votes for Jefferson.

(American Presidents, editor Frank McGill)

Page 10 sentence 23

Reluctantly she held out her hands in front of me,revealing three cigarettes sandwiched between her fingers,their amber tips glowing wantonly.

(MY LEGENDARY GIRLFRIEND-MIKE GAYLE0

PAGE 13 sentence 17

"I wish he'd said it while he was kissing me, because then I could have thrown up in his mouth."

(The Next Thing on My List by: Jill Smolinski)

Page 92
Sentence 4

"Sir John is as stupid as the weather."

(Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen)

Next: Page 86, sentence 7

"I will come back here and open a new barbershop in New Street or Azhar Street and I will make a luxurious home for us together, if God wishes."

(Midaq Alley-Naguib Mahfouz)

Next: Page 32, Sentence 2

- Do krewnych?

(Biała lwica by Henning Mankell)

Next: Page 60, sentence 16

She pointed to the bloodied towels I should take, and as I left, the doctor came.

(The Calligrapher's Daughter: A Novel by Eugenia Kim)


Next: Page 41, Sentence 2.

Sixty Germans came down to the riverbank to sing carols and to return what de Wilde thought was an object stolen from the collegiate church of Diksmuide.

Silent Night: The Story of The World War I Christmas Truce, by Stanley Weintraub

Next" Page 106, line 10

"And yours (defect)," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them (people)."

Pride and Prejudice

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